{"id":888,"date":"2026-03-18T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:00:09","slug":"%c2%a7-5-celebridades-influencers-y-otros-dictadores-blandos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/03\/18\/%c2%a7-5-celebridades-influencers-y-otros-dictadores-blandos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a7\u00a05. Celebrities, influencers and other soft dictators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In Los Ageless, the winter never comes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In Los Ageless, the mothers milk their young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But I can keep running<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">No, I can keep running<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The lost sages hang out by the bar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Burn the pages of unwritten memoirs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But I can keep running<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">No, I can keep running<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">How can anybody have you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">How can anybody have you and lose you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">How can anybody have you and lose you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">And not lose their minds, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">St. Vincent, <em>Los Ageless<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>During the second half of the eighties, tens and then hundreds of parabolic antennas began to pop up in the patios and roofs of my hometown. Bogot\u00e1, accustomed for decades to three TV stations, suddenly began to receive transmissions from several satellites. For a while my neighborhood friends and I stopped going out to play and devoted ourselves to decipher and memorize the new programming. There was much on offer: Disney Channel had the Mickey Mouse Club, first in black and white and then a revamped version with a lot of soon to be stars like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Ryan Gosling. We discovered Disney also produced an assortment of cartoons, live actions movies and TV shows we had never heard of; a welcome change when Hollywood movies took about a year to be released in Colombia. And then there were movie channels like HBO and Cinemax and the Pay Per View channels you could only see glimpses of, in bright solarized colors, by quickly switching between channels. A new media layer, way more alluring than the one already in place, had settled down on my country\u2019s collective mind. A new episode of techno-colonialism was on the airwaves. &nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Los Ageless, the winter never comes In Los Ageless, the mothers milk their young But I can keep running No, I can keep running The lost sages hang out by the bar Burn the pages of unwritten memoirs But I can keep running No, I can keep running How can anybody have you? How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274836558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[786109284],"tags":[786109285,786109286],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitulo-5","tag-celebridades","tag-celebrities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYHfz-ek","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274836558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}